Thursday 16 October 2014

Big dirty stinkin' bass




I first heard Meghan Trainor's track All About that Bass roughly four months ago on Reddit. It was posted and celebrated in their subreddit /r/trollxchromosomes which is a haven for real women to get together and talk about real women things (like douchebag boyfriends and period shits). But since it's recent hype and number one spot in the charts, people have nothing but issues with it. I don't mean the same issues I have with it, which are that she mentions bass so much she may as well be Big Narstie, and that quite frankly, it just isn't a good song. No, these women have a problem because she referrers to her fellow bra wearing vagina people as "skinny bitches" and promotes big bums cus its what "the boys like". There's only one response to the girls who think that this is a huge issue; shuuuuut the fuck up. Okay, you're entitled to your opinion, so here's mine.
Firstly, Meghan Trainor may refer to slim girls as skinny bitches, but the following line (and catchiest in my opinion) is "I'm just playing, I know you think you're fat, but I'm here to tell you every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top" a more important message, no? Holding on to that one line to criticise the whole song as skinny shaming is like the Westboro Baptist Church believing the moral of the Bible is that being homosexual is a sin. Yeah, it's in there, but it's not the whole point, it's not even a sub clause.
Secondly, the song is more about accepting your size yourself as a grown ass woman. She tells the guys to "run along" that aren't into bigger girls because she is not a slim woman. It's actually her mum's advice that is"the boys like a little more booty to hold at night" so if you wanna criticise anyone, criticise Meghan Trainor's Ma'. But that was probably better advice to her daughter who felt down about her weight than "get on the treadmill then, you fat fuck, how dare you insult my womb by being a size 14." I'm pretty sure all of our Mum's have given us some non - PC advice at one point in our lives, we just haven't written a song about it.

I'm not sure that the song really deserves any criticism about it's message, but girls lashing out at it is still a direct indicator that we're no closer to repairing or maintaining the sisterhood. Why aren't we celebrating another woman at number one? Girls aren't going to suddenly start stuffing their faces with pizza cus they want boys to notice their jiggly bum, we do that anyway, cus we're hungry, and cus pizza. The message "be happy with your size" is thrust down all of our throats just the same amount as "bigger is better" and "thigh gaps make you attractive". I just personally can't wait for the year of the booty to be over and hope next year we see a homage to micro penises or something.
Thanks to everyone that made me just dissect that ball bag stench of a song. Now here's Damien Rice's new track, he doesn't want to change you, thank fuck.


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